Great for a generalist, Not good for specialists
Great for a generalist, Not good for specialists
Remitly has a lot of positive things.
[+] They try to drive mission and directives with a customer first perspective [+] They give 4 day weekends once a month [+] They are very generous on days off (e.g. Mental Health days) [+] There are some amazing engineers at Remitly who became life long friends [+] You can vocalize your complaints and recommended improvements without repercussion. [+] Remote Friendly (now) [+] Family and Life Friendly (they understand that things happen that require you to shift focus) [+] They care about DEI (to an extent) [+] You can travel between sites to colocate with teams
Cons are relative to the team that I was apart of (Security).
[-] There was extreme burnout. [-] Remitly is not veteran friendly and at times feels very aggressive towards veterans, and DEI was informed multiple times. [-] There was a lack of support by M-Team. To elaborate, M-Team was constantly stating that they wanted more investment, but when rubber met the road, initiatives were always descoped in lieu of development team wants. [-] Promotions and performance reviews were extremely biased and not data driven. It felt as if there were a few people (same ones year over year) who made decisions based on their opinions. Specialized engineers are at a disadvantage compared to generalist development engineers. [-] Total comp did not match work output for similar roles. The communications were "we want people here for the mission and not for pay".
I think Remitly has to make a determination about where they see centralized support teams. Somewhere over the past 1.5 yrs, these teams have stopped being treated as partner teams and are now expected to be "do what I say teams". It felt as if leadership thought that a developer knows security, infrastructure, and IT better than the centralized teams that were staffed. In my opinion, this mentality is a huge security risk to the company. This risk will also turn into attrition if not actioned soon.
You have an amazing technical CISO, I would love to see their vision be actioned.
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Remitly Interview Experiences
Engineering Manager
Applied beginning of December 2024. Beginning of April (so 4 months later) got a message from a recruiter - was asked if I were interested in a different position, which was too junior for my taste: I have 25+ years of experience in quite different c
Engineering Manager
Multiple culture fit interviews with Director before deciding to proceed with the main interview. Typical core interview length of ~5 hours, included a coding question and lots of insightful questions about how I work and goals I have, as well as ali
Engineering Manager
Applied through portal. The recruitment was lack lustre with coordination misses. The phone screen was generic and the hiring manager was not sure of what the goals were for the org
Engineering Manager
Vancouver, CanadaApril 1, 2025Applied beginning of December 2024. Beginning of April (so 4 months later) got a message from a recruiter - was asked if I were interested in a different position, which was too junior for my taste: I have 25+ years of experience in quite different c
Engineering Manager
Seattle, WashingtonSeptember 1, 2020Multiple culture fit interviews with Director before deciding to proceed with the main interview. Typical core interview length of ~5 hours, included a coding question and lots of insightful questions about how I work and goals I have, as well as ali
Engineering Manager
United StatesNovember 1, 2021Applied through portal. The recruitment was lack lustre with coordination misses. The phone screen was generic and the hiring manager was not sure of what the goals were for the org
